Recognise familiar people
Connect words such as mum, dad or teacher with clear pictures.
Everyday Words
Start with the words that make everyday life easier to understand.
Mum. Eating. School. Happy. Simple familiar words can be an important first step towards understanding questions and communicating more.
Richy uses clear pictures and spoken prompts to help autistic learners and learners with learning disabilities recognise familiar people, actions, places and visible states — without requiring speech.
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Clear pictures. Spoken word. A simple way to show recognition.
See Richy in action
Real Richy foundational practice using clear, familiar pictures and spoken prompts.
Does this feel familiar?
Not ready for open questions yet? That does not mean Richy is too advanced.
A learner may first need to connect a familiar spoken word with the right picture — for example “mum”, “eating”, “school” or “happy”.
That receptive understanding can become the foundation for later WHAT, WHO and WHERE questions, descriptions and reasoning.
Hear the word. Recognise the picture. Show what you understand. Build from there.
Real product. Real practice.
See how Richy practises Everyday Words
Richy can ask a short receptive prompt such as “Show me drinking” and let the learner identify the matching picture.
1 SeeA clear visual appears 2 HearRichy asks the question 3 RespondTap or answer aloud 4 LearnGet clear feedback
Let my child try Richy Why this matters
Understanding familiar words can support everyday comprehension before longer answers are expected.
Understand familiar actions
Practise words such as eating, drinking, sitting, washing or opening.
Recognise places and states
Build understanding of familiar places and simple visible states or feelings.
Build towards questions
Use early receptive vocabulary as a foundation for later comprehension.
Speaking is not required. A learner can show recognition by tapping a picture, with spoken practice available when it is appropriate for that skill and level.
More than one way to answer
Let the learner show understanding in a way that works for them.
Tap
Your child can choose an answer on screen.
Speak when appropriate
At levels where speaking genuinely tests the skill, the learner can also answer aloud.
Different learners communicate in different ways. Receptive understanding can be shown without requiring speech.
Build understanding before demanding speech
A pathway from vocabulary to comprehension.
Richy is not built around forcing a learner to imitate or pronounce a word. The pathway can move from hearing and recognising familiar words to understanding those words in questions and, when appropriate, using them expressively.
“It’s not just asking my son to repeat ‘A is for apple’ like other apps. Richy actually makes him stop, think and try harder.”
— Parent tester
For parents too
See which foundational skills are becoming more secure.
The Parent Dashboard helps you see what the learner is developing and what Richy recommends practising next.
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Why Richy
Start where they are. Build from there.
Richy was created by a mum of an autistic child, together with a team informed by language and communication research.
Foundational learning is treated as part of the main Richy journey, not as a small add-on.
Parent feedback
What parents are saying
“It’s not just asking my son to repeat ‘A is for apple’ like other apps. Richy actually makes him stop, think and try harder.”
— Parent tester
“Usually he walks away from learning activities, but he kept asking for the next picture.”
Parent tester
“It takes some of the guesswork out of knowing what to work on next.”
Parent tester
Start with a starting point
Find the right place to begin.
- 1Create your free account
Add your learner and their preferred ways to respond.
- 2Complete the starting assessment
Richy helps identify whether to begin with foundational words, familiar objects, questions or a later skill.
- 3See their starting point
Then decide whether you’d like to continue with Richy’s adaptive practice.
Begin with familiar words and pictures, then build towards more.
From everyday words to understanding questions — Richy starts at the learner’s level.
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